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Re: 4.4.0-RC bootstrap failed on i686-pc-solaris2.10
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Rainer Orth <ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 20:25:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: 4.4.0-RC bootstrap failed on i686-pc-solaris2.10
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2009/5/5 Rainer Orth:
> Ian Lance Taylor writes:
>
>> Thanks for investigating this. ?It sounds to me like you are saying that
>> gcc/configure.ac is incorrect in assuming that the i686-pc-solaris2.10
>> linker always supports hidden symbols. ?If that is correct, then it
>> seems like a bug report would be appropriate.
>
> I could just reproduce the problem on mainline with a C-only build. ?I've
> got to further investigate what's going on here. ?I'm pretty sure the
> linker isn't the culprit, though: before I made the change, I verified with
> the Sun linker maintainers that .hidden support had been added to ld back
> in Solaris 9 days, and since there is only one ld, this cannot be the
> difference between the i386 (default) and i686 builds.
Hi Rainer,
I'm afraid I missed your reply today and went ahead and opened
http://gcc.gnu.org/PR40027 - and blamed the linker, feel free to
correct my ignorant guesses in that report :-)
> This make take a few days, though.
No problem, I'm not in a hurry for an answer, I was just updating my
build scripts for 4.4, but wasn't planning to use it until 4.4.1 at
least.
Thanks for looking into it,
Jonathan